135 Grand Street, New York, 1979 OST

A CD of the soundtrack to this film by Ericka Beckman, released separately by Soul Jazz Records (with bonus tracks). Featured groups include Theoretical Girls, UT, A Band, Rhys Chatham, Chinese Puzzle, The Static, Morales, Youth in Asia, Steven Piccolo and Jill Kroesen. Includes a 12-page booklet with notes and color photos!

About the film:
"Garage band line-ups in varying degrees of post-punk musical destruction. Ericka Beckman's film matches the rawness, minimalism and radicalism of the music - a fitting document and visual statement of new forms created out of New York's anti-everything musical nihilism, circa 1979. 135 Grand Street, New York, 1979 is history. This is a film about bands made up of painters, filmmakers, actors - and occasionally musicians - thriving and thrashing in the pulsating, vibrant post-punk world of New York where high art met low culture. Ericka Beckman documented the cross-fertilizing art and music scene in New York in the mid-1970s. Her film captures the driving energy and posturing of early No Wave bands' performing in a sparse downtown loft. "If you want to see what the SoHo side of No Wave looked like this is the only place you're ever gonna find it." - Glenn Branca.